Class on 5/21/14

Make up Oral Presentations, Make up Final Exams and "Exit Interviews" with Students

Celebration!

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Dear Students,

Thanks to all of you for being such motivated and engaged students. I had a great semester! Good luck with your studies, career and life.

Garth

5/14/14

Students took a practice test, reviewed all answers and took home test as a study guide.


Final Exam will be 5/19/14. Study!

Class on 5/12/14

Students Gave Their Final Oral Presentations

Class on 5/5/14. Cinco de Mayo!

Homeworkh: read page 58, student book Just make sure to study the article. Use a dictionary to look up words u want to understand better.

Class on 4/28/14

Warm Up:  Students described a " Mystery Place" (a room where they live). They could not use certain key works and instead had to use senses and other specific vocabulary to describe it.

P 52 and 53 in the student workbook


Students read an article about Ranchers in Nevada:




Homework: 
Read the article on Page 56 of the Student Book. Choose one of the questions on the top of page 57 and write one paragraph to answer it. Remember to use the words from the question in your introductory sentence.

April 28th, 2014 Article

Here is the article for class!
• http://www.thetimesinplainenglish.com/wp/defying-the-united-states-government/


Vocabulary words:

• anarchy — absence of law
• civil disobedience — people disobeying the government
• disparaging — to describe something as unimportant, weak, bad (adjective of disparage)
• firestorm — an intense or violent response
• graze — for animals to feed on grass
• militia — an armed force of citizens
• patriot — someone who loves and supports their country
• protest — a display of disapproval
• withdrew — to take back, to remove, to turn away (past tense of withdraw)

Class 4/9/14

Warm up:

List of common English suffixes:

Answers to p37 section B: